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🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

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#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

Share to amplify.

#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

Share to amplify.

#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

Share to amplify.

#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

Share to amplify.

#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

Share to amplify.

#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🆘 This is the Berlin Wall of our generation.

Iranians are demanding an end to a 45-year dictatorship. The regime has imposed an 80+ hour communications blackout while civilians face lethal repression.

Swipe to learn what’s happening, why it matters globally, and how to support the people of Iran.

Please only support accounts that back the transitional leader. This moment requires clarity and discipline.

Anyone framing this as “anti-imperialism,” focusing solely on sanctions, or pushing appeasement is advancing a reform agenda. No more reform. No more reform narratives.

This regime has survived because reform advocates in the West have flooded the media—softening language, redirecting blame, and refusing to demand real change. That is why the regime silenced Iranian voices: so the only voices heard are those that do not call for transition.

There is no reform under dictatorship.
There is only transition to a referendum and Democracy.

Share to amplify.

#FreeIran #IranRevolution #Iran #Blackout

🏗️ 🦁 Iran is still on my mind. Sometimes when I feel stuck in an issue, I have to go deep into operator and founder mode to think about reinvention, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

Why I love being an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist: my creative outlet is operator and founder mode, all at once.

In this week’s Substack — and I’m committing to this weekly going forward — here’s what I unearthed.

Three things I learned letting AI read everything in my life:

- The million dollars hiding in plain sight.
- The meetings that are the opposite of leverage.
- The debt your smartest people are quietly accumulating — and I defined cognitive debt for you. The accumulated cost of thinking you chose not to do. The interest paid in confusion, misalignment, and rework on decisions made fast and never examined again.

Full piece on Substack. Link in bio.

🏗️ 🦁 Iran is still on my mind. Sometimes when I feel stuck in an issue, I have to go deep into operator and founder mode to think about reinvention, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

Why I love being an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist: my creative outlet is operator and founder mode, all at once.

In this week’s Substack — and I’m committing to this weekly going forward — here’s what I unearthed.

Three things I learned letting AI read everything in my life:

- The million dollars hiding in plain sight.
- The meetings that are the opposite of leverage.
- The debt your smartest people are quietly accumulating — and I defined cognitive debt for you. The accumulated cost of thinking you chose not to do. The interest paid in confusion, misalignment, and rework on decisions made fast and never examined again.

Full piece on Substack. Link in bio.

🏗️ 🦁 Iran is still on my mind. Sometimes when I feel stuck in an issue, I have to go deep into operator and founder mode to think about reinvention, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

Why I love being an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist: my creative outlet is operator and founder mode, all at once.

In this week’s Substack — and I’m committing to this weekly going forward — here’s what I unearthed.

Three things I learned letting AI read everything in my life:

- The million dollars hiding in plain sight.
- The meetings that are the opposite of leverage.
- The debt your smartest people are quietly accumulating — and I defined cognitive debt for you. The accumulated cost of thinking you chose not to do. The interest paid in confusion, misalignment, and rework on decisions made fast and never examined again.

Full piece on Substack. Link in bio.

🏗️ 🦁 Iran is still on my mind. Sometimes when I feel stuck in an issue, I have to go deep into operator and founder mode to think about reinvention, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

Why I love being an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist: my creative outlet is operator and founder mode, all at once.

In this week’s Substack — and I’m committing to this weekly going forward — here’s what I unearthed.

Three things I learned letting AI read everything in my life:

- The million dollars hiding in plain sight.
- The meetings that are the opposite of leverage.
- The debt your smartest people are quietly accumulating — and I defined cognitive debt for you. The accumulated cost of thinking you chose not to do. The interest paid in confusion, misalignment, and rework on decisions made fast and never examined again.

Full piece on Substack. Link in bio.

Happy heavenly birthday to my sweet Khaleh Ghodsi. Missing you has been deafening. I’ve spent this last year praying for your peace, your healing, and for some kind of comfort in the ache of losing you. We miss you so much and think about you constantly.
Damn cancer. And damn the IRGC, the systems and people that make it impossible for families like ours to be together in moments that matter most in Iran. The grief feels even heavier knowing how much distance and politics can steal from people already carrying unbearable loss.

Today I’m thinking about everyone who has lost someone they love to cancer. It is such a cruel, painful thing to witness.

My Khaleh was one of the most beautiful spirits I’ve ever known. She had a way of making everything around her feel softer, warmer, sweeter. Her presence made me feel safe and loved.

May her memory always be a blessing. 🧿💔

thank you @sarashakeel ❣️🧿

Happy heavenly birthday to my sweet Khaleh Ghodsi. Missing you has been deafening. I’ve spent this last year praying for your peace, your healing, and for some kind of comfort in the ache of losing you. We miss you so much and think about you constantly.
Damn cancer. And damn the IRGC, the systems and people that make it impossible for families like ours to be together in moments that matter most in Iran. The grief feels even heavier knowing how much distance and politics can steal from people already carrying unbearable loss.

Today I’m thinking about everyone who has lost someone they love to cancer. It is such a cruel, painful thing to witness.

My Khaleh was one of the most beautiful spirits I’ve ever known. She had a way of making everything around her feel softer, warmer, sweeter. Her presence made me feel safe and loved.

May her memory always be a blessing. 🧿💔

thank you @sarashakeel ❣️🧿

Happy heavenly birthday to my sweet Khaleh Ghodsi. Missing you has been deafening. I’ve spent this last year praying for your peace, your healing, and for some kind of comfort in the ache of losing you. We miss you so much and think about you constantly.
Damn cancer. And damn the IRGC, the systems and people that make it impossible for families like ours to be together in moments that matter most in Iran. The grief feels even heavier knowing how much distance and politics can steal from people already carrying unbearable loss.

Today I’m thinking about everyone who has lost someone they love to cancer. It is such a cruel, painful thing to witness.

My Khaleh was one of the most beautiful spirits I’ve ever known. She had a way of making everything around her feel softer, warmer, sweeter. Her presence made me feel safe and loved.

May her memory always be a blessing. 🧿💔

thank you @sarashakeel ❣️🧿

Happy heavenly birthday to my sweet Khaleh Ghodsi. Missing you has been deafening. I’ve spent this last year praying for your peace, your healing, and for some kind of comfort in the ache of losing you. We miss you so much and think about you constantly.
Damn cancer. And damn the IRGC, the systems and people that make it impossible for families like ours to be together in moments that matter most in Iran. The grief feels even heavier knowing how much distance and politics can steal from people already carrying unbearable loss.

Today I’m thinking about everyone who has lost someone they love to cancer. It is such a cruel, painful thing to witness.

My Khaleh was one of the most beautiful spirits I’ve ever known. She had a way of making everything around her feel softer, warmer, sweeter. Her presence made me feel safe and loved.

May her memory always be a blessing. 🧿💔

thank you @sarashakeel ❣️🧿

Happy heavenly birthday to my sweet Khaleh Ghodsi. Missing you has been deafening. I’ve spent this last year praying for your peace, your healing, and for some kind of comfort in the ache of losing you. We miss you so much and think about you constantly.
Damn cancer. And damn the IRGC, the systems and people that make it impossible for families like ours to be together in moments that matter most in Iran. The grief feels even heavier knowing how much distance and politics can steal from people already carrying unbearable loss.

Today I’m thinking about everyone who has lost someone they love to cancer. It is such a cruel, painful thing to witness.

My Khaleh was one of the most beautiful spirits I’ve ever known. She had a way of making everything around her feel softer, warmer, sweeter. Her presence made me feel safe and loved.

May her memory always be a blessing. 🧿💔

thank you @sarashakeel ❣️🧿

💚🤍💔

🪻✨🌞🦁♥️ 🍎 🔥

As Iranians around the world are celebrating Nowruz, a rainbow appeared in Tehran.

This beautiful sign of nature has given hope to many people and reminded us of Kian Pirfalak who introduced us to the God of Rainbow.

On this day of rebirth, we wish all of you the rebirth of a free Iran, we wish love, happiness and a normal life to everyone.

Our thoughts are with all the people who are no longer with us. We think of all the people who kept the flame alive all this time.

May this Nowruz be the last we have to celebrate apart from each other.

#Repost @weareiranianstudents

#ایران #نوروز
#iran

“Seeing the war in Iran, I feel a profound sense of sadness for the deaths of innocent Iranians. But I hold the Iranian regime responsible for it, because I think they have put the country on a warpath for 47 years. They have pursued policies that make conflict almost inevitable, and they seem willing to pay the price for those policies with the lives of ordinary Iranians.” — Abbas Milani

Hearing this is incredibly painful.

Abbas Milani is one of the most respected historians and scholars of modern Iran. He directs the Iranian Studies program at Stanford and has written some of the most important books on Iran’s modern political history, including The Shah, Eminent Persians, The Myth of the Great Satan, and The Persian Sphinx.

What makes this moment even harder to hear is that Milani himself once supported the 1979 revolution as a young intellectual, believing it might bring justice and reform to Iran. Like many in his generation, he later watched those hopes collapse into authoritarian rule.

Iranians are not naïve but this desperation for change can’t be exploited. We need the war to end and turn the page to transitional leadership.

Iran is occupied by the Islamic Republic.

Whether Democrats Republicans or the Western left want to acknowledge that or not, these are the facts.

Iran is trying to restrain Trump by shaping American public opinion against the war. He is now the sixth US president since 1979 consumed by events tied to Iran.

Regime change is non negotiable.
A Democratic Iran awaits us if we have to courage to hold Democrats, Republican and the International community accountable.

Here are 3 things my Iranian friends are telling me to ask for right now, I am just here to be an ally and messenger in solidarity with them. You can reach out to your reps right now and demand the these tangible things. Call your reps: (202) 224-3121. 🦁♥️

STARFACE World has secured a $105M strategic investment from Astō Consumer Partners, led by investors Clayton Christopher, Brian Goldberg, and Robbie Patterson, marking a major growth milestone for the star-shaped acne patch brand founded in 2019 by Brian Bordainick and Julie Schott, which had previously raised capital from firms including Align Ventures and Brand Foundry Ventures. The transaction was advised by Baird and follows industry consolidation moves such as the acquisition of Hero Cosmetics by Church & Dwight Co., Inc..

FOUNDERS: Brian Bordainick & Julie Schott

INVESTORS: Patrick Finnegan, Asto Consumer Partners, Align Ventures, Brand Foundry Ventures, Moj Mahdara, BBG Ventures

AMOUNT: $105,000,000

HQ: New York

#VentureCapital #STARFACEWorld #BrianBordainick #JulieSchott #TradedVC

STARFACE World has secured a $105M strategic investment from Astō Consumer Partners, led by investors Clayton Christopher, Brian Goldberg, and Robbie Patterson, marking a major growth milestone for the star-shaped acne patch brand founded in 2019 by Brian Bordainick and Julie Schott, which had previously raised capital from firms including Align Ventures and Brand Foundry Ventures. The transaction was advised by Baird and follows industry consolidation moves such as the acquisition of Hero Cosmetics by Church & Dwight Co., Inc..

FOUNDERS: Brian Bordainick & Julie Schott

INVESTORS: Patrick Finnegan, Asto Consumer Partners, Align Ventures, Brand Foundry Ventures, Moj Mahdara, BBG Ventures

AMOUNT: $105,000,000

HQ: New York

#VentureCapital #STARFACEWorld #BrianBordainick #JulieSchott #TradedVC

‘ I am a democrat. And this needs to be a bi-partisan issue. This can’t be about anti Trump. I absolutely support this military action,’ said @moj Mahdara -venture capitalist and founder of the Iranian Diaspora collective. We talked about why Prince Reza Pahlavi is the person to lead Iran in the transition and why Iran won’t be another Iraq.

Make it make sense
I don’t get it